I see what you did there, but that quote was about the 14-bit
compositing code that was last developed in 1996, which I used 5 years
later.

On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Andi Farhall <[email protected]> wrote:
> "Personally I think all of this old source code base is now worthless."
>
> I would agree, and I would include Maya.
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: [email protected]
> Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 20:22:00 +0100
> Subject: Re: Lets Hope Autodesk Buys the Foundry!
> To: [email protected]
>
>
> " I think people just want the existing, production-proven ones they are
> used to,"
>
> Well this goes also for Softimage for a lot of artist out there but doesn't
> meant a thing later when it was chopped down
>
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 8:18 PM, Luc-Eric Rousseau <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> Does anybody want a new compositor? I don't think they do.  I think people
> just want the existing, production-proven ones they are used to, cheaper.
> What people have in their hands is pretty great already.
>
> btw autodesk doesn't own eddie/illusion/matador/ER, just the source code of
> the fxtree, which doesn't really have any eddie in it and not that much of
> the other ones. Personally I think all of this old source code base is now
> worthless.
>
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Paul Griswold
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Doesn't ADSK own Toxik, Composite, Smoke, Flame, FX Tree (Eddie, Media
> Illusion, Matador), as well as Elastic Reality (inside the FX Tree)?  On top
> of that they have a fantastic vector paint program called Sketchbook
> Designer (not Sketchbook Pro, though that's pretty spiffy too).
>
> It seems like they already own enough technology to create the greatest
> compositor the world has ever seen.  I wonder what the problem is?
> Leadership?  Nah....
>
> -PG
>

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